Summary

Pinch to summarize

In Arc, a playful pinch interaction lets you quickly distill any webpage into a brief summary, capturing the essence of the content in moments.

The image depicts a two-panel interface design on a pink to purple gradient. The left panel resembles a web browser displaying a prompt for email updates. The right panel shows a summary of the website's content about human-AI interaction, key UX insights, and transparency. A curved arrow between the panels suggests content summarization with the phrase "Summarizing for you..." below.
Human needs

When browsing the internet, I want to quickly understand the most important points of a page without having to read the entire article.

AI-UX patterns
Considerations
  • Balancing Playful Interactions: Using playful interactions can enhance people's experiences, but they shouldn't be the sole method since individuals have varying levels of technological literacy.
  • Simplifying Complex Information: Applications will increasingly incorporate features to summarize, personalize or simplify complex information into easy-to-understand language.
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Semantic highlights

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Generative context menus

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Follow-up on an answer

Letting people select text to ask follow-up questions provides immediate, context-specific information, enhancing AI interaction and exploration.

Semantic ranking

Embedding models can rank content along virtually any dimension. This capability provides significant value by enabling users to explore and analyze the embeddings to create a spectrum of any features.